> + > +Next up was Andrew Gaul from Maginatics with an informative presentation at > [0:40 of the meetup](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nuON0zGVJI&t=40m00s) on > [Apache jclouds at Maginatics](http://gaul.org/talks/jclouds-at-maginatics/). > I personally learned a lot from Andrew's presentation like the wide variety > of differences amongst object storage providers. The engineering work that > Gaul and the team from Maginatics have done around the BlobStore portable API > in jclouds is impressive. > + > +At [1:09 of the meetup](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nuON0zGVJI&t=69m0s) > we made a toast to Ignasi Barrera for his work in kicking off the jclouds > website redesign. Thanks Ignassi! And thanks to everyone who helped make it a > reality! > + > +## Discussion > + > +Then we had a good talk about the future of jclouds. A few interesting > points came out of the discussion. > + > +1. It's time to seriously considering dropping support for Java 6. Java 6 is > officialy end-of-life and has been a security bug ridden mess for Java. It's > time to move on. We agreed on a rough plan of action to move forward. > + 1. Reach out to users. A blog post dedicated to the topic and sending > out an email and tweets to get user feedback. > + 1. The last branch to have support for Java 1.6 will be a long lived > branch, effectively indefinite. We will backport crucial bug fixes and do > releases on the branch but no new features will be added to it. > + 1. The exact timing and releases in which these things happen have yet > to be decided on. > +1. There was concern expressed by the Maginatics team over the performance > impact of the RestAnnotationProcessor for BlobStore intensive work. > + 1. In his presentation, Gaul mentioned that Maginatics had discovered > that the overhead of reflection call in the RestAnnotationProcessor were > causing what should have been I/O intensive work to also be CPU bound. > + 1. The Maginstics team was interested in experimenting with alternatives > to the RestAnnotationProcessor.
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